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    The document discusses the powers and functions of the Senate President and House Speaker in the Philippines. It outlines their roles in presiding over sessions, preserving order and decorum, and signing acts and resolutions. It also discusses quorum rules and each House's ability to determine its own rules of proceedings and punish members.

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    Article VI (Section 16, 17, 18) of the Philippine Constitution

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    The document discusses the powers and functions of the Senate President and House Speaker in the Philippines. It outlines their roles in presiding over sessions, preserving order and decorum, and signing acts and resolutions. It also discusses quorum rules and each House's ability to determine its own rules of proceedings and punish members.

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    (1) The Senate shall elect its President and the House of

    Representatives its Speaker , by a majority vote of all its respective


    Members.

    Each House shall choose such other officers as :it may deem
    necessary.
    POWERS AND FUNCTIONS OF SENATE PRESIDENT AND HOUSE SPEAKER
    They preside over their sessions, preserve order and decorum, decide all questions of
    order, sign acts, resolutions, orders and warrants, issue subpoenas, and appoint personnel, and
    discipline them.

    Other powers may be given to them by the rules of their respective Houses for
    purposes of efficient staff services of legislative work.
    (2) A majority of each House shall constitute a quorum to do
    business, but a smaller number may adjourn from day to day and may
    compel the attendance of absent Members in such manner, and under
    such penalties, as such House may provide.
    A quorum is such a number of the membership of an
    assembly or collective body as is competent to transact its business.

    Ordinarily, a quorum is at least one-half plus one of the


    members of a body.
    (3) Each House may determine the rules of its proceedings,
    punish its : Members for disorderly behavior, and, with the concurrence
    of two-thirds of all its Members, suspend or expel a Member. A penalty of
    suspension, when imposed, shall not exceed sixty days.
    Rules of procedure are the rules made by any legislative body
    to regulate the mode and manner of conducting its business.

    They are intended for the orderly and proper disposition of


    the matters before it. Thus, the procedure and rules to be observed in its
    deliberations; election of officers; penalties to be imposed upon erring
    members; and many other kindred matters, are proper subjects of the
    rules of procedure.
    A Legislative Journal is defined as the official record of what
    is done and passed in a legislative assembly. It is so-called because the
    proceedings are entered therein in chronological order as they occur
    from day to day.
    The record is frequently spoken of in the plural as the
    "journals”.
    (4) Each House shall keep a Journal of its proceedings, and from
    time to time publish the same, excepting such parts as may, in its judgment,
    affect national security; and the yeas and nays on any question shall, at the
    request of one-fifth of the Members present, be entered in the Journal.

    Each House shall also keep a Record of its proceedings.


    (5) Neither House during the sessions of the Congress shall,
    without the consent of the other, adjourn for more than three days, nor to
    any other place than that in which the two Houses shall be sitting.
    SEC. 17: The Senate and the House of Representatives shall each have
    an Electoral Tribunal which shall be the sole judge of all contests relating to
    the election, returns, and qualifications of their respective Members. Each
    Electoral Tribunal shall be composed of nine Mem hers, three of whom shall
    be Justices of the Supreme Court to be designated by the Chief. Justice, and
    the remaining six shall be Members of the Senate or the House of
    Representatives, as the case may be, who shall be chosen on the basis of
    proportional representation from the political parties and the parties or
    organizations registered under the party-list system represented therein. The
    senior Justice in the Electoral Tribunal shall be its Chairman.
    SEC. 18: There shall be a Commission on Appointments consisting
    of the President of the Senate, as ex officio Chairman, twelve Senators and
    twelve Members of the House of Representatives, elected hy each House on
    the basis of proportional representation from the political parties and the
    parties m· organizations registered under the party-list system represented
    therein. The Chairman of the Commission shall not vote, except in case of a
    tie. The Commission shall act on all appointments submitted to it within thirty
    session days of the Congress from their submission. The Commission shall
    rule by a majority vote of all the Members.

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